HardDaysKnight

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by HardDaysKnight 3y ago
I thought I was the only one that ever felt that way. It was many years ago when ICC was the only place to play online, and I was exactly the same. I could play bots, but not people. Losing to a bot was one thing, but another person? No way
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by HardDaysKnight 3y ago
I don't understand the Golden Record. Even assuming other advanced civilizations, "there’s an infinitesimally small chance that the Golden Record will be picked up."[0] So, at some (considerable?) cost and time, something mea
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by HardDaysKnight 9y ago
I've watched the interview a couple of times. I did not see that his tone or vocabulary were over her head. However, I would like to know what you're referring to. Could you give one or two examples please?
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by HardDaysKnight 9y ago
Probably not. The question is, what does the prepositional phrase modify: "largest" or "built." You took it to modify "built." There's no syntactical requirement that it modify one or the other, that I&#x2
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by HardDaysKnight 10y ago
Very little was said about the type of exercise they were doing. I'd guess that most of it was "cardio." Would they have different results if they were involved in more specifically muscle building exercises, i.e, weight lift
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by HardDaysKnight 10y ago
Interesting. I read in Body By Science (McGuff) that drinking two liters of ice water a day will force your body to burn an additional 125 calories to maintain core temperature. I know that since I've been following the weight-lifting
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by HardDaysKnight 10y ago
Yes, I never go to Forbes anymore.
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by HardDaysKnight 11y ago
And for the ability to review already seen problems using spaced repetition.
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by HardDaysKnight 11y ago
I have no idea why this article is so popular. It claims to show the way to get better at chess by the doing the following: 1. Study the opening, 2. Study the middlegame, 3. Study the endgame, 4. Study your own games, 5. Study master games,
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by HardDaysKnight 11y ago
Michael L. Jones discusses the teaching out loud technique in, The Overnight Student (1990)[1]. He says that in high school he was a B and C student, and in college his first semester GPA was 1.9. The next semester he failed every class. He
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by HardDaysKnight 11y ago
I feel for you. In our house computer games, like Minecraft, began to consume all our children's (12 and under) time and attention --- they wanted to do absolutely nothing else. So, we made a rule, no computer games, except on what my
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Carlsen Wins Trivially in Iceland (Why Greg Shahade Is Right)(uschess.org)
1 points by HardDaysKnight 12y ago|0 comments
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by HardDaysKnight 12y ago
I've played tournament chess for a few years. In fact, I'll be playing in a chess tournament this weekend. I've lost lot of games. The effect, I think, has been an increased ability to handle failure, rejection, and frustrati
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by HardDaysKnight 12y ago
Congratulations on getting the book written and on Amazon. I hope to follow in your footsteps in the coming year. Like you, I'm fascinated by story structure, the hero's journey, and the mono-myth. And I've struggled with cre